Sterility

Sterility refers to inability to get pregnant in a women who is married and lived for more than three years with her husband whose productive function is normal, and no contraception is taken; or inability to get pregnant for more than two years without contraception in a woman who gave birth or had abortion. This disease is usually caused by disturbance of ovary secretion and ovum formation, or deformity of genital organs. It belongs to the category of “childlessness”, “no delivery” in Chinese Medicine. It is due to deficiency of kidney essence, liver depression with qi stagnancy, blockage of the uterus by phlegm-dampness, and blood stasis and cold coagulation, leading to insufficiency of the kidney in nourishing, hence the dysfunction of the Chong and Ren meridians.